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- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 11:53:00 PT
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- From: jack.hamilton@AMAIL.AMDAHL.COM
- Subject: re: FTP Transport: Thanx, etc.
- Comments: To: apple!ohstvma.bitnet!sas-l@juts.ccc.amdahl.com
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- David Nasser (nasser@umslvma.bitnet) wrote:
- >
- > The _good_ news is that it worked. Due to a lack of compatible tape
- > drives, the only (serious) alternative was to download what turned out to be
- > about 20 mb to floppy disks (Cringe!).
-
- I think there would be a market for a floppy-disk drive for mainframes -
- something which would allow you to use JCL like:
-
- //OUTPUT DD DISP=NEW,UNIT=HDFLOP,DSN=MYDATA.TXT
-
- and would write your file to a floppy (or floppies), automatically labelling
- each one.
-
- > The _not-so-good_ news is that it was sloooooooooow. Transfer rate
- > averaged about 1 kb/sec. Terminal session on (dialed-in) PC was
- > dedicated to FTP for perhaps 5 hours. Anybody ever heard of running
- > FTP in MVS batch??
-
- Yes. IBM's ftp for MVS supports it. It's documented in "IBM TCP/IP V2R2 for
- MVS: User's Guide", SC31-6088-01. Basically, you have a batch step PGM=FTP
- withan INPUT DD pointing to the commands and an OUTPUT DD pointer to a printer
- or print file.
-
- I haven't tried this myself, but I have run ftp from within an interactive
- SAS session, and that works. You have to have ftp running on your PC as a
- TSR.
-
- There are some interesting applications for this. For example, you can run
- a batch job overnight which will print results to your PC printer.
-